1. Current Status, Position

Head of the Division of Clinical Pharmacology & Toxicology at the University and University Hospital of Basel; Chief Physician in Internal Medicine at the University Hospital of Basel

2. Education

School of Pharmacy of the University of Berne, graduation 1978, Ph.D. in Pharmacy 1981.
School of Medicine of the University of Berne, graduation and MD 1985.
From 1985 to 1999 formation in internal medicine, hepatology, clinical pharmacology and clinical chemistry at the University Hospitals of Berne and Zurich in Switzerland and at the Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH, USA.

3. Research Area

• Drug metabolism and toxicity, drug-drug interactions
• Energy metabolism (in particular mitochondrial function)
• Drug administration in patients with impaired organ function